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Boxing up old inventory. ^^

Psyra Extraordinaire
Corra Nacunda Chieftain
Join date: 24 Jul 2004
Posts: 1,533
11-26-2006 15:12
Just a simple Q for the Techie Fellows there. ;)

Hypothetical Situation: If we had 20 directories of many many items (body parts, clothing, notecards, scripts, etc) and we packed the contents of each of those dirs into single prims kept in our inventories, then deleting the original dirs, and thus ending up with 20 prims full of stuff....

Is it better to have the 20 objects full of stuff in your inventory rather than the 20 dirs of many many items? ;)

Since it seems that the contents of prims are only loaded when you actually open the inventory of a box, does it mean there's less load when those boxes are sitting unused in a dir stored away?

Would be nice to know for those like me that have 100 directories, of which maybe 30 are used and the others have things you don't want to toss, but yet they are taking up a lot of Inventory space. I noticed that less inventory = faster logins and logouts. Does it work that way if we have 70 boxes full of various backed up items? ;>

(Hope that made sense) :)
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Kelly Linden
Linden Developer
Join date: 29 Mar 2004
Posts: 896
11-26-2006 15:47
Your assumptions are correct. If you only have 20 items, then only 20 items need to be loaded - when dealing directly with inventory the contents of those inventory items has no effect on load. Having thousands of inventory items on the other hand means sending more data to your machine and more load on the inventory servers.
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